GILA! Jim Wynorski’s fun ’50s retro flick – free on Plex and YouTube

Gila! is a 2012 sci-fi horror film about a giant lizard that terrorises a rural Midwestern community, with a group of heroic teenagers led by Chase Winstead trying to kill it.

The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall; Sorceress; Transylvania Twist;  Piranhaconda) from a screenplay by William Dever, Steve Mitchell, Jim Nielsen and Paul Sinor. It is a remake of The Giant Gila Monster (1959) and a pastiche of ’50s monster movies in general.

The movie stars Bruce Munson, Adrienne Atkins, Brian Patrick McCulley and Brian Gross. Terence Knox and Kelli Maroney have cameo roles.

Plot:
A young couple is parked in a bleak, rural locale when a giant Gila monster attacks the car, sending them running for their lives. Chase Winstead (Gross), a young mechanic and hot rod racer and his girl Lisa (Voges), meet up with Chase’s former nemesis, Waco Bob (Janzen) and his sidekick Carla (De Rosa).

Prompted by calls from Mayor Wheeler (Pauwels), the local Sheriff (Knox) enlists the help of Chase, locates the crashed car in the ravine and finds evidence of the giant lizard. They attempt to destroy the creature, but that only makes it more vicious…

Cast and characters:
Bruce Munson … Johnny Langostina
Adrienne Atkins … Betty
Brian Patrick McCulley … Don
Brian Gross … Chase Winstead – 2001 Maniacs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chase Adams … Pike
Madeline Voges … Lisa
Bone Ramsay … Dave
Vinnie Van Dolsen … Rick
Jesse Janzen … Waco Bob
Christina De Rosa … Carla
Dave Haney … Joe (as David Haney
Tom Sparx … Bill
Callie-Nycole Burk … Elsa
Robert Hay Smith … Lars
Micheal Price … Clete
Terence Knox … Sheriff Parker
Kelli Maroney … Wilma – Hell’s Kitty;Transylvania Twist; Not of This Earth (1988); Chopping Mall; Night of the Comet
Jenna Ruiz … Missy Winstead
Ellen Kingston … Dorothy Winstead
Julie McCullough … Vera
Gerard Pauwels … Mayor Wheeler
James Wolford Hardin … Karl Swenson
Judy Joseph Crippin … Maybelle Swenson
Steve Anderson … Injured Driver
Jeff Bodart … Ambulance Driver

Trailer:

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